By request: Who grew up circling items in the Sears Christmas Wishbook

[laurie31]

My brother and I would be so excited when the Sears Christmas catalog came in the mail. We would each pick a colored marker (so Mom and Dad would know who wanted what) and circle all the stuff we wanted. We knew we weren't getting a tenth of it, but it was really fun to circle it all.

 

[canadianjovigirl]

Ha-Ha...........my kids now do that so i have to get them each one as theres no way they can share.........love how the closer to the holidays it gets the more stuff thats circled. My 10 year old daughter was dismayed this year that there was not much in there she wanted

 

[mickeysgal]

That's the only way we knew what kind of toys were out there in SantaLand. Commercials on TV weren't geared towards tons of toys, so the Sears Christmas Wishbook was all us kids had. We made lists and lists from that Wishbook. Wish they'd bring it back...

 

[pppiglet]

We did this too!

 

[Diznotyzed]

Well, technically I had to vote no because we were a Montgomery Wards catalog family, but we sure did circle in those!

 

[cglaura]

So funny! I was going to post about this on the other thread about things that are missed. We loved those huge catalogs! In fact, even as I got older, the day I found out I was pregnant I sat up all night and had my entire nursery "outfitted" in my mind by JCPenney.

 

[rie'smom]

We used to say that our little brother should put an x on the front cover and another on the back cover because he wanted everything between them.

 

[Lisa S.]

I did! I would pore over that thing for weeks.

 

[superme80]

Yup!!!! ah the good ol days!

 

[*Meagan*]

I loved getting the JCPenney Christmas catalog!!! My absolute fave! I vaguely remember the Sears catalog.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Technically I had to vote no as well - I folded down pages and made lists. Page numbers, item numbers, names, descriptions... but circled items? Nope.

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

Oh man.. I had Christmas lists a mile long between the Sears catalog, the JC Penney catalog, the Toys R Us book and the Disney Store catalog. I LOVED looking through all of them and writing down my lists for Santa. I only ever got a few things from it, but just the possibility of any of those toys was always so exciting!

 

[NHdisneylover]

It was the Spiegel catalog in our house--and I was a corner folder/list maker too.

 

[laurie31]

Well, dang! Just when you think you've covered all the options in a poll! I didn't think about doing something besides circling the stuff! LOL! We were just about too old for "circling" when JC Penny came out with theirs, so it never had the same "Ooooh! Ahhhhh!" factor for us.

I guess maybe it should read: who marked things in a Christmas Catalog when they were kids?

 

[dyna]

Of course

As I got older Dad would hear me say I want that an tear it out an give it to me I expected to get up Christmas morning have an enevelope of everything I wanted under the tree from where mom had we along picked up all the things Dad had torn out of the catalog.

 

[Dax]

My little brother and I would go through the catalog so many times it was a tattered mess by the time Christmas rolled around..I was alway the first to get it each year

 

[paintnolish]

My Gma and Gpa always bought us gifts from the catalogue. We'd circle what we want and they'd buy some of it. The best part? We got to "spend" a whole $60!!! Woohoo!

 

[golfgal]

We did this too. It was great fun. One year my in-laws gave the kids the Fleet Farm Christmas flier-not quite the same but close. Between the 3 kids they circled about 90% of what was in there. It wasn't so helpful.

 

[kristilew]

We circled tons of stuff, then the things we really wanted we cut out and put in the "wish box." This was a gift box my mom had cut a slot in the top of, and we could put gift ideas in it all year. I think she came up with it to avoid hearing us say "I want" all the time. It was one of those old fashioned gift boxes - a cube, very sturdy, with a lift off lid that was shiny white. It seemed sooo magical to us.

Once we'd been through the catalogs, we made "dolls" out them: Each page would be folded down from the corner all the way to the middle, until the whole catalog could stand on its own, looking roughly like a dress. Then we'd make faces out of construction paper and glue them to a toothpick and stick it in the spine. Voila! A "doll!" Today's catalogs aren't thick enough to do this....

 

[Keli]

My grandparents were the ones that had us circle stuff in the Sears wish catalog.
I think we were pretty conservative when we circled because I can remember her encouraging us to circle more stuff in case she couldn't get the couple of things we had picked out. I have no idea why, I was a greedy child in every other way! LOL
I loved doing that, it is a great christmas memory